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Adult-onset glycogen storage disease type II: phenotypic and allelic heterogeneity in German patients.
Neurogenetics - 1 Mar 1998
Vorgerd M, Burwinkel B, Reichmann H, Malin J P, Kilimann M W
Abstract excerpt
Glycogen storage disease type II (GSDII, Pompe's disease) is an autosomal recessive inherited deficiency of lysosomal alpha-glucosidase (GAA). Clinical as well as biochemical and allelic heterogeneity have been described in GSDII. We identified mutations within the GAA gene in seven unrelated German patients, six with adult- and one with juvenile-onset GSDII. Beside previously described mutations [IVS1 (-13T -->...
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